Pitching coach Rick Honeycutt, left, along with Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers prior to a Major League Baseball game against the San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, Sept.. 22, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)

The pavilions get peppered with home runs during the bottom. Peace and tranquility, amid the nonstop din of the sound system, reign during the top.

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The Dodgers lead the National League in long bombs, but they also lead in ERA and WHIP (walks and hits, per innings pitched), for the fourth time since 2006. They have been in the top four in six other seasons.

They also have led the league in ERA, WHIP, strikeouts and in all opponents-hitting categories since Rick Honeycutt became the pitching coach 12 years ago. He is the only constant. So far.

Honeycutt, 63, has wife Debbie, two sons and five grandchildren back in Ringgold, Ga., just south of the Tennessee line. He has worked for four Dodger managers. He boarded this ride in 1977, with the Seattle Mariners, and pitched until he was 43.

Last year people thought Honeycutt might be headed home, where the family has a ranch and a therapeutic horseback-riding business, for children in need.

But when someone saw him at Justin Turner’s wedding in Cabo San Lucas, Honeycutt just said, “I can’t leave now, I’m having too much fun.”

That was after 104 wins and a National League pennant. Honeycutt does have a World Series ring, earned in 1989 when he was the front man for Dennis Eckersley in the Oakland bullpen. Who knows if another ring would complete the circle? It’s more of a grind with each flight, smoothed out by winning.

“Tony LaRussa gave me some advice that I haven’t forgotten,” Honeycutt said Saturday. “He said to go about each year like it’s your last.”

He laughed. “I’ve been doing that for several years now.”

“I’ve never been around a coach that was more prepared,” said A.J. Ellis, now with the Padres but a veteran of those meetings with Honeycutt and the pitchers from 2008 through 2016. “He’s a calming presence.”

Pitchers of all shapes, sizes, velocities, ages and nationalities have thrived here.

And, beyond all that, a hulking, weak-hitting catcher Kenley Jansen has saved 105 more games than any other reliever in Dodgers history.

Honeycutt was an All-Star starter in Seattle and, after an injury to the AC joint in his shoulder, became a high-mileage reliever. “They said I could still throw hard, but not for as long,” he said. When he was 41 he had a 2.42 ERA in 49 games for the A’s.

Honeycutt credits LaRussa and pitching coach Dave Duncan for showing him the finer points of preparation. But he always drew upon his days with the Dodgers, where he pitched from 1983 through 1987.

“You’d go down to Vero Beach and there would be Tommy Lasorda, Sandy Koufax and (former pitching coach) Red Adams,” he said. “It opened doors for me. There were things they knew that I’d never dreamed of. People still don’t realize how deep Sandy’s knowledge is. Every time I see him to this day I learn something.

“They weren’t concerned with changing deliveries. There were things about the grip, and grip pressure, but they really concentrated on the lower half, and how to use it to get into position.”

When Honeycutt tries to rescue a pitcher from the miseries, he starts with what he is going well. “They’re usually still commanding one pitch,” he said. Sometimes he encourages them to juggle the repertoire, More often he just flips the magic slate. The change of scenery helps, he says, especially this scenery.

“If you think about good-cop, bad-cop, he’s somewhere in the middle,” said former general manager Ned Colletti, who hired Honeycutt in 2006, “but I think it’s just the way he relates to guys. We signed Ronald Bellisario one winter and he didn’t show up until halfway through spring training. That wasn’t good, but right before we broke camp Rick came up to me and Joe (Torre) and said, you know, there might be something there.”

Bellisario pitched 71 innings in 2012 and gave up 47 hits.

Maybe the two sides of Dodger Stadium remain, after Honeycutt heads back to the foothills. No one who works there is eager to find out.